Description
| Product ID: | 9781783602971 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | South Africa's Insurgent Citizens |
| Subtitle: | On Dissent and the Possibility of Politics |
| Authors: | Author: Doctor Julian Brown |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Sociology, Sociology, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Demonstrations & protest movements, Republic of South Africa |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A lively and argumentative analysis of contemporary South African politics that shows how the dream of a 'rainbow nation' consensus has fractured, making space for new political possibilities to emerge. Twenty years on from South Africa''s first democratic election, the post-apartheid political order is more fractured, and more fractious, than ever before. Police violence seems the order of the day – whether in response to a protest in Ficksburg or a public meeting outside a mine in Marikana. For many, this has signalled the end of the South African dream. Politics, they declare, is the preserve of the corrupt, the self-interested, the incompetent and the violent.They are wrong.Julian Brown argues that a new kind of politics can be seen on the streets and in the courtrooms of the country. This politics is made by a new kind of citizen – one that is neither respectful nor passive, but instead insurgent. The collapse of the dream of a consensus politics is not a cause for despair. South Africa''s political order is fractured, and in its cracks new forms of activity, new leaders and new movements are emerging. |
| Imprint Name: | Zed Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-07-15 |
